Guest Opinion: In my experience, DCF does well with what it has

8:52 PM,
Nov. 10, 2013

Judge James Seals

Written by

James H. Seals

The death of a child at the hands a caregiver, someone a child trusts, is indeed one of our community's most tragic events. It's even more tragic when the child is under the watch of the Department of Children and Families, but it will continue to happen as long as humans have the capacity to make mistakes, which is always.

Child protection system professionals, like physicians, airline pilots, builders, and police officers, to name some, make mistakes which can directly or indirectly cause the loss of human life. Their duties require them to gather information, process it, exercise ...